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Photos by: Neil Van – Canadian experimental pop group, Braids, who released their second album, Flourish // Perish, on August 20th via Arbutus Records, performed at The Great Hall in Toronto last Friday.
Photos by: Curtis Sindrey (@SindreyCurtis) – The 3rd day of Iceland Airwaves 2013 featured Toronto-based hardcore punks and Polaris Music Prize winners Fucked Up, London, UK-based electronic duo AlunaGeorge, Swedish alternative and experimental fusion band Goat, Syrian electronic artist Omar Souleyman, American singer-songwriter John Grant, Iceland-based rockers For a Minute Reflection, and the always-chaotic UMTBS, who will soon release their second album “!”, … Continue reading
Photos by: Neil Van – Seattle-based indie folk-rock band The Heard and the Heart, who released their second album, Let’s Be Still, on October 15th via Sub Pop, performed at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on Halloween night with San Francisco-based folk-rock band Thao and the Get Down Stay Down and Portland-based americana band Quiet … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – Toronto-based all-female Weezer cover band (Blue Album and Pinkerton only), performed a special Halloween themed show at Lee’s Palace in Toronto with Toronto-based seven-piece 60s-girl-group-meets-90s-girl-group (meets math rock) band Patti Cake, and Toronto-based pop-punk trio Unfinished Business, which features 13-to-14 year old girls who write their own songs, who also performed … Continue reading
Photos by: Curtis Sindrey (@SindreyCurtis) – The 2nd day of Iceland Airwaves 2013 featured Toronto-based punk trio and 2013 Polaris Music Prize short-listers METZ, along with New Jersey-based indie rock trio Yo La Tengo, who released their thirteenth album, Fade, back in January via Matador, Icelandic metal band Sólstafir, Icelandic dub-reggae eleven-piece Ojba Rasta, Icelandic post-hardcore band Endless Dark, Prins … Continue reading
Photos by: Scott Penner (@ScottPenner) – UK heavy metal quartet Orange Goblin peformed at Mavericks in Ottawa on Tuesday night with California-based heavy metal band Holy Grail, who released their second album, Ride the Void, back in January via Nuclear Blast, Lazer/Wulf, Atlanta-based experimental metal trio Lazer/Wulf, who are currently working on their full-length debut album … Continue reading
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – Community star, Donald Glover, (aka Childish Gambino), held an impromptu listening party at Trinity Bellwoods Park yesterday evening around 5pm for his new album, Because The Internet, out December 10th via Glassnote Records, which he played on a boombox Lloyd Dobler style. Afterwards, he took questions from fans about anything from … Continue reading
Photos by: Neil Van – Dublin, Ireland-based indie pop duo and twin sisters Ellie and Louise Macnamara, known collectively as Heathers, performed at The Rivoli in Toronto on Saturday night.
By: Curtis Sindrey (@SindreyCurtis) – Last night, the Sony Centre hosted two musical heavyweights, the Beach Boys leader and acclaimed solo musician Brian Wilson and iconic guitarist Jeff Beck. Playing to a crowd consisting of mostly seniors, Wilson was flanked by original Beach Boys Al Jardine and David Marks and backed by an 11-piece band that seamlessly … Continue reading
By: Patrick Topping (@ptopp_ing) – Universal Music Canada and Sleepless Records hosted the hometown return of July Talk at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto last night, the very room where the band’s leading duo Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay initiated their mercurial music pairing. The private show at the warmly-lit frontiers-themed venue carried the autumnal … Continue reading
